Set Your Goals have premiered a new song titled “Accelerate.” You can stream that below. The single will also be available on 7″ vinyl alongside another new track titled “Big Couch.” With this news the band have also announced a tour in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their debut album “Mutiny!.”
The group commented:
“‘Mutiny!‘ turned 20 years old this year! We’re very excited to announce that we will be playing some shows to celebrate the occasion. These songs still mean a great deal to us, and we are so grateful for the opportunity to still be sharing them with all of you two decades later.
We are also proud to announce the release of our two new songs, “Accelerate” and “Big Couch.” We are releasing 7″ vinyl with both songs available on an exclusive pre-order color available now, and another “tour only” colorway that will be available at these shows, so come join us for this very special celebration of old and new music. We hope to see you there!”
Tour Dates:
With The Warriors (“War Is Hell” set), Restraining Order, and Stateside:
10/01 Baltimore, MD – Soundstage
10/02 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
10/03 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
10/04 Boston, MA – The Sinclair
With I Am The Avalanche, Doomsday, Bad World, and Giveaway:
12/17 Los Angeles, CA – The Regent
12/18 Santa Ana, CA – Observatory
12/19 Sacramento, CA – Ace Of Spades
12/20 San Jose, CA – The Ritz
Former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes has revealed that he is battling prostate cancer. You can help him out with medical expenses via GoFundMe.
Holmes and his wife Catherine commented:
“We never imagined we would have to write something like this again. In 2022, just after two years of Covid lockdown, Chris faced throat cancer. A GoFundMe carried us through an impossible moment. We were deeply grateful, and we hoped we would never have to ask again.
Today life has placed us in another hard situation, and we want to speak about it honestly.
Chris has begun radiotherapy in France for prostate cancer. The treatment is essential and cannot be interrupted.
Because of an administrative error linked to our marriage registration, the health insurance system placed Chris under “emergency only” coverage. He had to wait three months before receiving any care at all, and only the radiotherapy given during the month of July is covered.
Everything else falls to us:
* Hormone therapy (standard and new generation)
* Scans and PET scans
* Biopsy and blood tests
* Daily travel to and from the hospitalThis has already left us with €20,000 in medical debt, and the treatment ahead will keep adding to it every month.
Chris must remain in France to receive radiotherapy. Leaving the country would risk his emergency status lapsing, so he cannot travel and therefore cannot work.
Chris has given everything to his music and to the people who listen to it. It is his whole life. Today we cannot carry this alone.
We are grateful to France for granting the emergency coverage that allowed Chris to begin radiotherapy. Now we ask, humbly, for help covering everything else.
If you are able to give, even a small amount, it goes directly to the medication, medical exams, and transport Chris needs to finish his treatment safely. And if you cannot give, your messages, your love, and your presence mean just as much.
With gratitude and our love,
Chris and Catherine”
During a recent interview with Rock ‘N’ Roll Grad School, Primus drummer John Hoffman offered an update on the band’s new album. According to him, the group have “done a lot of recording” for the effort.
Hoffman said the following when asked if the band have finished the recording process:
“No, we are not. We’ve recorded a few songs, like we just put out ‘The Ol’ Grizz’ [on the ‘A Handful Of Nuggs’ EP, which came out in May]. And then we did a cover of [DIO’s] ‘Holy Diver’ featuring Puddles Pity Party on vocals. And we did ‘Little Lord Fentanyl’ last year, which was actually part of my audition process. I was thrown that song as part of the audition, and I had one night to come up with my drum parts. And same with Gergő [Borlai], who was the other drummer in the finals. It was part of his process, too. And we each had the ability to kind of show what we would bring to the table in a recording situation. And, thankfully for me, the guys liked what I came up with. And a lot of people don’t realize this, but the drum part that’s on ‘Little Lord Fentanyl’ is the actual drum part that I played during my audition, for the ‘Drum Derby’. So what you’re hearing on that song is me nervously trying to get through the song with these brand-new parts that I just came up with, and thankfully it worked out.”
He continued when asked if he knew his parts would be used for the final version of “Little Lord Fentanyl”:
“I didn’t know that they were gonna release the song the way that they did. At the time, I was just looking at it as just another part of the test. It was like the final test, really, because at that point, I submitted all of my stuff through the Internet, and that took a couple of months from the time that they announced that they were looking for a drummer until the auditions started. So I had been in kind of correspondence with people, the management mostly, up to that point, and then I had my initial audition in Los Angeles, and then from there, the final audition, which was a three-day process. So by the time I got to that part, where I’m recording the song, I had already been through quite a bit of audition process at that point, so it just felt kind of like the final test. But I do think it’s cool that we ended up using the actual drum part from that time because it’s almost like an imprint, a photograph of what was going on at that exact moment.”
He also circled back to the album:
“We’ve done a lot of recording. At this point I feel like it’s been a lot of sort of just coming up with riffs and seeing kind of what sticks, and also spending a lot of time in the room with [bassist/vocalist] Les [Claypool] and [guitarist] Larry [LaLonde] to just get on their level and have me become completely the drummer that they want and that they’re looking for and they can work with without having to think about anything. You have to spend time. You can’t usually just jump into a room, especially with guys like that, on their level, as creative as they are, as used to doing things their own way as they are. It’s a process. Not that it’s been difficult, but like I say, I feel like a lot of the recording process up to this point has been more of a getting to know you as opposed to this is what we’re gonna show the world.”
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Agnostic Front have announced some October shows with Béton Armé and Restraining Order. Here’s the dates:
10/10 Pittsburgh, PA – The Crafthouse
10/11 Huntington, WV – West Edge Factory
10/12 Columbus, OH – Ace Of Cups
10/13 Lakewood, OH – Mahall’s
10/14 Buffalo, NY – Rec Room
10/15 Syracuse, NY – The Song & Dance
10/16 Cheshire, CT – Counterweight Brewing
Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament has announced a new photo book titled “Since Forever.” The effort will be released on September 25 and it can be pre-ordered HERE.
More info was shared in a press release:
“For decades, Pearl Jam founding member and bassist Jeff Ament has photographed the people, places, and moments that inspire him. A few years ago he began working through his archive of decomposing negatives with his brother, acclaimed designer Barry Ament. Their efforts led to Since Forever, a deeply personal visual journal of creativity, friendship, and life on the road.
This 9″ x 12″ hardcover volume features more than 250 black-and-white photographs, accompanied by wry insights, observations, and personal reflections from Ament.
“If there was a goal, it was mostly to save the failing 30 year old negatives. It was Barry’s idea to make a book,” explains Ament.“Historically, my family will often get together by creating some kind of project or job. And in some ways, putting together this book was a job for Barry and me – a reason to hang out. Most of these photos are from 1990 to 1998. He was there for a lot of it. If he wasn’t, he was next door or a phone call away.”
Drawn largely from previously unreleased images, the collection offers a rare and intimate look at the formative years of Pearl Jam as they evolved from a small group of friends into one of the most influential bands of their generation. From backstage and in the studio to the countless miles between stages, Ament‘s photographs capture candid moments of creativity, camaraderie, and the enduring relationships that helped sustain the band through its meteoric rise.
At once a visual memoir, and a behind-the-scenes chronicle, the book reveals how relationships, travel, joy, and need contribute to the creative process. Since Forever reveals Ament‘s unique perspective as both participant and observer of a defining time period in music and American culture.
“Ninety percent of these photos have never been seen before,” Ament says. ”Anybody who’s a PJ fan or a fan of what was going on in the 90s will dig it.
Since Forever is available for pre-order now at pearljam.com. It will officially hit select independent bookstores on September 25, 2026.
Details about Since Forever book events with Jeff and Barry Ament in select cities will be announced in the coming weeks .To kick off these events, the Ament brothers will be speaking about the book on the Storytellers Stage at Ohana Festival on September 25th and 27th.”
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